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Overview
The report begins by looking at changes in the total level of offending in New Zealand from 1970 to 2000 read story... |
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Administrative offences
Three percent of all offences recorded in 2000 were classified as administrative offences. read story... |
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Resolution rate
A recorded offence is considered resolved by the police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted). read story... |
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Offence categories
Police classify all offences into one of the seven offence categories read story... |
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Dishonesty offences
The largest crime category (by a significant margin) is dishonesty offences, with 60 percent of all offences falling into this category in 2000 read story... |
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Drug and anti-social offences
Drug and anti-social offences was the second largest crime category in 2000, comprising 12 percent of all recorded offences. read story... |
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Violent crime
Although violent crime has traditionally aroused the most public concern and comment, it constitutes only approximately 10 percent of all recorded offences. read story... |
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Property damage
Property damage offences made up 9.5 percent of all recorded crime in 2000 read story... |
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Property abuse
This category constituted 5 percent of all offences in 2000. read story... |
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Sexual offences
The smallest crime category is sexual offences, accounting for less than 1 percent of all recorded crime in 2000, and in every year since 1994 read story... |
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Overall offence rate
The recorded offence rate rose steadily from 55 per 1,000 population in 1970 to an all-time peak of 132 per 1,000 population in 1992 read story... |
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Report Summary
Recorded crime doubled between 1970 and 2000. The offence rate peaked at 132 per 1,000 population in 1992 but was down to 111 per 1,000 population in 2000 read story... |
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Appendix - crime categorisation
Within each offence category are a number of offence classes and within each offence class are a number of offence types read story... |
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